Bøverfjorden Explained

Official Name:Bøverfjorden
Other Name:Bæverfjord, Bøverfjord
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Møre og Romsdal#Norway
Pushpin Label Position:right
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Møre og Romsdal
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Norway
Subdivision Name1:Western Norway
Subdivision Name2:Møre og Romsdal
Subdivision Name3:Nordmøre
Subdivision Type4:Municipality
Subdivision Name4:Surnadal
Utc Offset1:+01:00
Utc Offset1 Dst:+02:00
Postal Code Type:Post Code
Postal Code:6644 Bæverfjord
Elevation M:6
Elevation Footnotes:[1]
Coordinates:63.0247°N 8.5925°W

Bøverfjorden (sometimes Bæverfjord[1] [2] or Bøverfjord[1] [3]) is a village in the municipality of Surnadal in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It lies on the shore of Hamnesfjord along County Road 65 where the Bøvra River empties into the fjord.[4]

Name

Locally, the name of the village is pronounced Bøffjorn.[5] The name is derived from Old Norse Bifrarfjǫrðr 'beaver fjord'[6] with substitution of the Norse first element by Low German bever.[5]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bøverfjorden, Surnadal (Møre og Romsdal). yr.no. Norwegian. March 4, 2017.
  2. https://snl.no/Surnadal Store norske leksikon: Surnadal.
  3. Möbius, Michael, & Aaron Möbius. 2014. Stefan Loose Reiseführer Norwegen. Ostfildern: Dumont Reiseverlag, p. 628.
  4. http://norgeskart.no/#!?zoom=12&lon=176062.31&lat=7004511.74& Norgeskart: Bøverfjorden.
  5. Nordland, Ingvil. 2009. Normering av stedsnavn i skjæringspunktet mellom vedtaksorgan og grunneier. Master's thesis. Oslo: University of Oslo, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, p. 99.
  6. [Amund Helland|Helland, Amund]